Other senior management

The ongoing wave of student protests is testing the diplomacy skills of the territory’s vice-chancellors to the limits. But is it possible to keep the peace on campus and maintain good relations with the Hong Kong and Chinese governments while maintaining unrestricted freedom of speech, asks Joyce Lau

Management academics need to be supported to bring teaching and research on global warming into the mainstream, say Amanda Goodall and Susan Hill

The competition among 20 Georgian institutions for international medical students raises a host of quality concerns, says Michèle Wera

The Australian National University’s rejection of massification will reap rich rewards for its students, says Brian Schmidt

Politicians are culpable for restricting student loans for prisoners, but universities need to be less wary of released offenders, says Nick Hillman 

Conservative mistrust of the existing research funding system demands a re-examination of its uneasy compromises, says John Womersley

If a Canadian programme’s success rates are replicated in the US, it must be adopted, says John Banzhaf

The Equality and Human Rights commission’s latest report is just the latest to reinforce what we already know about the extent of racism in UK HE, says Ilyas Nagdee 

While some universities are funding huge building projects out of international student fees, an increasing number in Australia and elsewhere are finding that the ground beneath their feet is the best foundation for reaching to the sky. But should universities really be swapping ivory towers for commercial skyscrapers? John Ross cranes his neck and wonders 

A much wider use of sophisticated video conferencing will help – but no one is saying this will be easy, reflects Richard Davies

A post-qualification admissions system will pose logistical challenges, but they must be overcome, says Michelle Morgan

Bureaucracy is the bane of every academic’s life. But who is to blame for its proliferation – and how can it be kept in check? Six academics have their say – while a registrar offers an equal and opposite reaction 

State school students are more prominent at undergraduate level, but what about postgraduate, ask Claire Hann and Danny Dorling

Revelations that a Chinese university suspended an academic for ‘moral misconduct’ provoked weeks of online controversy

The volatility of current affairs means that the old certainties about how to identify receptive markets are gone, says Anna Esaki-Smith

Time, money, planning and monitoring are key to improving standards, say Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu 

Stronger ties between educators and companies will be essential if humans are to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution, says Adenekan Dedeke

Recent controversy over the future directions of both Stanford and Melbourne university presses have raised questions about the role of in-house publishing arms in a world of commercialisation, impact agendas, alternative facts – and ever-diminishing monograph sales. Anna McKie reports

Spaces can energise or demotivate. Using them to nurture well-being should be seen as an investment not a cost, says Derek Clements-Croome

History suggests that universities will lure students with the chance to repay fees via post-graduation work, says Peter Brady

A cross-continental push to improve Europe’s best universities will make them more globally competitive, says Jan Palmowski

Academics need to be more aware of this most insidious form of bullying, say Bailey Sousa and Alex Clark

As governments around the world increasingly look to follow US states’ lead and link university funding to the recruitment, retention and employability of students, Paul Basken surveys the results of the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings 2020 for clues about the strategy’s effectiveness 

A policy to recruit genuinely the brightest and best students would have to look beyond revenue maximisation

Free of Communist-era secretiveness, the new president might be willing to tackle abuses of power on campus, says Ararat Osipian

Brexit, domestic funding threats and declining public trust could conspire to undermine a critical national asset, says Louise Richardson

Recent clashes over Hong Kong and Tiananmen Square have strained universities’ diplomatic sinews, says Roger Smyth

Universities often claim to be competing in a global market, but their recruitment of leaders typically results in domestic appointments. With some of the world’s top institutions led by people from abroad, John Ross asks whether more should be following suit 

Publishing deals need to acknowledge the reality that most research is not yet gold open access, says Elsevier’s Gemma Hersh

Poland’s authoritarian government is routinely compared to its widely criticised counterpart in Hungary, and its university reforms sparked a wave of protest by students and academics fearful of political interference. But, one year on, are those concerns being realised? David Matthews travels to Warsaw to find out

Poland’s underperforming university system raises hard questions for those who advocate academic self-government over ‘managerialism’ 

Funders and researchers are squandering a huge opportunity to create a more just and effective system, says Jon Tennant

Pan-continental prosperity will suffer if the UK’s near-absence from the European University project is a sign of things to come, says Martin Paul

International education is not just about personal transformation – it also delivers better core academic outcomes, says Kent Anderson

Continuous retraining is widely seen as the answer to the coming job losses caused by automation and artificial intelligence. But are universities the best places to provide it? And are their courses, structures and funding systems optimised to do so? Anna McKie reports

If universities don’t assert their expertise, demands from ministers and industry will become ever more misguided, says Dawn Freshwater

John Brinnamoor’s floundering doggy-paddle is no match for the voracious jaws of his university’s antiquated data-gobblers 

Tuition comprises less than half the cost of attending US universities, but taxpayers may be unwilling to cover it, says Anthony P. Carnevale

Business and management schools are highly successful in financial terms, and provide valuable income to their wider universities. But opinion remains sharply divided on how successful they have been intellectually. Here, five business academics give their views on whether their discipline has done enough to earn the respect of the academy and wider society

Students’ talents wear many guises, depending on the person, the field and the judge. But instilling ethics is also crucial, says Howard Gardner

Students from poorer regions who enter their local workforce after graduation should also be celebrated, says Sir David Bell

A Times Higher Education survey bears out the growing difficulty of finding time for research

Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and administration that often crowd out research entirely during term time. So is the 40/40/20 workload model still sustainable? Respondents to a THE survey suggest not. Nick Mayo hears why

Evolutionary processes are slow, but University of Oxford research shows the scheme is improving gender equality, says Pavel Ovseiko

Asking people to prepare for a 10-week course that might not run is too much, says an anonymous early career academic

Universities must draw up agreements with local partners that have the public voice at their heart, says Richard Brabner

As the UN reviews its Sustainable Development Goals, Åse Gornitzka and Sidsel Roalkvam argue that the push for quality education needs to go well beyond primary schools

University of Alaska cuts are just the latest example of what is probably the new normal in US political culture, says Ben Trachtenberg

The long overdue top-up to England’s quality-related funding stream is a reminder that project grants are not the only show on the beach

The well-known economic and social benefits of higher education have been tossed aside for short-term political gain, says Steven Brint 

The next EU commissioner for research and innovation must fight for the Horizon Europe budget but resist timetables for scientific delivery, says Jan Palmowski

Investigation launched following Dominic Shellard’s departure highlights a disturbing example of how things can go wrong, says John Coyne

Facilitated meetings can encourage early admissions of guilt from perpetrators and provide recognition of victims’ experiences, says Clare McGlynn

All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research volume and quality and asks which, if either, should be prioritised

Human beings can only work at full capacity for so long before they become incapable of doing any work at all, says an anonymous university employee

Review chair’s comments on ‘discretionary’ funding raise disturbing questions, say Mark E. Smith, Sarah Randall-Paley and Andrew McConnell

We must create spaces, resources and communities where individuals and groups can achieve optimal health through everyday activities, says Alan Cromlish

Starting again from scratch every October causes no end of stress, mix-ups and wasted time, says one hourly paid lecturer

Formulating and implementing a strategic plan is core to the modern university leader’s job description. But amid complaints that such documents are vacuous, generic and irrelevant to the wider community, John Ross asks how the process can be improved

Newly arrived undergraduates are typically too immature to be trusted with the conduct of their own lives, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto